“The Ladies Vanish? American Sociology and the Genealogy of its Missing Women on Wikipedia,” article by Wei Luo, Julia Adams and Hannah Brueckner in Comparative Sociology (2018)
Many notable female sociologists have vanished from the canonical history of American sociology. As the most influential crowd-sourced encyclopedia, Wikipedia promises – but does not necessarily deliver – a democratic corrective to the generation of knowledge, including academic knowledge. This article explores multiple mechanisms by which women either enter or disappear from the disciplinary record by analyzing the unfolding interaction between the canonical disciplinary history of sociology and Wikipedia.